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Criteria

Evangelicals <= 2%
Professing Christians <= 5%
Progress Level
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People Groups

7,414

% of World's
People Groups

42.5 %

Population

3,343,532,000

% of World Population

42.3 %

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Photo ▲ People Group Country Population Primary Language Primary Religion Progress
Scale 		% Christian
Adherents 		%
Evangelical 		Indigenous Est. Workers
Needed *
Yakkha Nepal 27,000 Yakkha Other / Small ● 0.72 % ● 1
Yakthumba, Limbu Bhutan 1,800 Nepali Other / Small ● 3.75 % 1
Yakthumba, Limbu Nepal 439,000 Limbu Other / Small ● 2.69 % ● 9
Yakut China 2,900 Yakut Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Yakut Russia 487,000 Yakut Ethnic Religions ● 3.00 % 0.10 % ● 10
Yalunka Guinea 125,000 Yalunka Islam ● 0.30 % 0.17 % ● 3
Yalunka Mali 17,000 Yalunka Islam ● 0.20 % 0.10 % ● 1
Yalunka, Dialonke Senegal 15,000 Yalunka Islam ● 0.15 % 0.05 % ● 1
Yaminahua Peru 900 Yaminahua Ethnic Religions ● 2.00 % 1.70 % ● 1
Yanghuang China 16,000 T'en Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Yao, Muslim Malawi 2,109,000 Yao Islam ● 1.00 % 0.50 % ● 42
Yao, Muslim Mozambique 208,000 Yao Islam ● 1.40 % 1.00 % ● 4
Yao, Muslim Tanzania 651,000 Yao Islam ● 2.00 % 1.20 % ● 13
Yao, Muslim Zambia 5,300 Yao Islam ● 3.00 % 1.00 % 1
Yashkun Pakistan 1,900 Balti Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Yazeed Sudan 495,000 Arabic, Sudanese Spoken Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 10
Yazidi Armenia 36,000 Kurdish, Northern Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Yazidi Georgia 12,000 Kurdish, Northern Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Yazidi Germany 51,000 Kurdish, Northern Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Yazidi Iraq 588,000 Kurdish, Northern Ethnic Religions ● 0.14 % 0.14 % ● 12
Yazidi Russia 41,000 Kurdish, Northern Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Yazidi Sweden 4,300 Kurdish, Northern Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Yazidi Syria 11,000 Arabic, North Levantine Spoken Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Yazidi Turkey 2,800 Kurdish, Northern Islam ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % ● 1
Yazidi Ukraine 2,000 Kurdish, Northern Ethnic Religions ☀ 0.00 % 0.00 % 1
Totals:  7,414 People Groups   3,343,532,000             70,266
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